Sri Lanka and Ireland - Worlds Apart But Parallels Learned

Tamil Widow's Complaint to NI Ombudsman On RUC "Shoot-to-Kill"

The Irish Times/Phil Miller | 24 July 2017

Declassified British official documents reveal that, in 1983, the RUC advised police officers in Sri Lanka on counter-insurgency methods shortly after a new "special unit" shot dead six men in County Armagh.

Secretary of State's Rules of Engagement in Northern Ireland

Pat Finucane Centre | 24 October 2017

A memo from a private secretary to the Secretary of State in 1975 suggesting that the SoS would like to see '... some form of dispensation permitting the Forces to open fire in an emergency without fear of subsequent legal action.' The author speculates that compensation claims by the relatives of t...

Families Challenge MoD and Prime Minister in London

Pat Finucane Centre | 26 October 2017

In November 2016 the families of Christopher Quinn and Kevin Heatley along with the Pat Finucane Centre utilised Advans in London to highlight the murders of their relatives and the appalling treatment they endured after the killings, in response to Theresa May's comments on those pushing for human...

Loughrey family lodge complaint with OPONI

Sara Duddy, Derry News, | 27 November 2017

How can someone be a suspect in four murders but never be arrested or questioned by the police? How can you be named on the Police National Computer as being wanted for questioning for these murders, yet travel freely around the UK, even reportedly running a bed and breakfast in Scotland? These are...